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Health and Care Research Unit shares research with British and Italian governments

Advisory group member Etta Di Benetti shared the EQUALD project policy brief (led by Professor Liz Croot) with Italian Minister for Disabilities Dr. Alessandra Locatelli and UK Minister for Social Security and Disability Sir Stephen Timms.
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Increase in alcohol deaths in England an ‘acute crisis’

The persistent higher rate of alcohol deaths in England since the pandemic in 2020 is an “acute crisis” requiring urgent action from government, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Sheffield and UCL.
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The University of Sheffield to play key role in shaping future of health screening

A team from SCHARR has been selected as one of three institutions to form a new specialist Evidence Synthesis Group contributing to the work of the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), thanks to a £15 million investment from the NIHR.
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Preventing Behaviour Change Trials from Doing Harm

Episode 36 of the Communicable Research podcast is out. This time we discuss the topic of preventing behaviour change trials from doing harm with Diana Papaioannou from the Clinical Trial Research Unit in the Division of Population Health.

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How ‘drinkflation’ affects the price of your pint

Colin Angus from the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group explores the process of 'drinkflation': a result of both the cost of living crisis and the changing tastes and habits of consumers in the UK.

| Published by The Conversation
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New toolkit launched to help patients with inflammatory bowel disease

A toolkit to support people living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) to communicate confidently with healthcare professionals has been launched in Sheffield, in partnership with the Clinical Trials Research Unit.

| Published by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
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New publications from ScHARR for May 2023

ScHARR publishes over 400 new journal papers every year across our four sections - Public Health, Health Economics and Decision Science, Design, Trials and Statistics and Health Services Research.
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Junk food advertising and obesity

In the latest episode of the ScHARR Communicable Research Podcast, Andy Tattersall is joined by Dr Penny Breeze and Fran Bernhardt to explore the topic of junk food advertisements.